A Malaysian man shot his wife dead after he mistook her for a monkey picking fruit in a tree behind their house, the New Straits Times has reported.
The man, 70, is being held by police for causing death through recklessness after he fired a shotgun at what he thought was a monkey in a mangosteen tree on Monday, the newspaper said on Wednesday.
His wife, 68, had used a ladder to climb into the tree and was picking the tropical fruit when she was shot.
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